Front and back covers of my book. I plan on using this as a visual diary. I taught myself from tutorials on You Tube. You've gotta love You Tube!
I did 6 signatures, 4 A4 pages folded in half so that's 48 pages A2 in size. I was originally planning 4 signatures but as I discovered book making is addictive!
The back spine, a wee bit quirky because I ended up improvising but that's ok!
At the risk of sounding incredibly vain...I have to say I am feeling very pleased with myself today! Isn't it great when you create something that you even manage to 'wow' yourself with? lol. Ok, so I do sound a little vain now. Serioulsy though, I am incredibly chuffed at the way this book turned out. It has it's little quirks of course but for a first attempt I am, as I mentioned, feeling pretty good.
The painting below became the cover for my book. It was done on paper around the start of 2008. It's painted with acrylic, indian ink and coffee. The assignment I was doing at the time was about life drawing and the environment. You had to combine the two so that the person became part of the environment...so really what you are looking at is a nude on the beach!
